Public Lands Podcast

David Beard and Heather Graves join us to talk about their book, The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty First Century. Photo used by permission, thanks to Ali Abu Ras https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95959798

A conversation with Geographer Rod Squires about the cultural landscape of public land policy making in America.

We chat this week with Colorado University's Phaedra Pezzullo about her book Toxic Tours, her collaboration with the Sierra Club's (and UNC prof) Robert Cox, environmental advertising, and signs of hope in environmental communication.

This week we explore the rise of Zoomtowns in gateway communities to our state and national parks, and the overcrowding problem that has resulted in part from COVID-19.

This week we explore the rise of "Zoomtowns" and the impact of COVID-19 on public lands as visitation to parks and wildlands increases.

As we think about the public dissemination of science in relation to our public lands and waterways, a rebroadcast of one of our greatest hits, and interview with marine scientist, Joe Gaydos, Director of the Sea Doc Society.

Hadley Nellis brings us Part 3 of her series on Environmental Racism, interviewing Gina Ramirez of the National Resources Defense Council.

Associate Producer Hadley Nellis brings us her 2nd podcast in a series on Environmental Racism and Justice. Adrien Salazar, Senior Campaign Strategist for Climate Equity, brings home the story of the inequitable systems and relationships that created the climate crisis, and offers effective and equitable responses to the global climate crisis.

Public lands news of the week and interpretive resources in the time of COVID-19, and a rerun of last year's interview with NPS ranger, Paula Swingley, to remember what interpretation was like before the virus and will be again in the future.

Hadley Nellis interviews David Paolella, a research and policy analyst at the Clean Energy Transition Institute. David is a graduate of Yale, whose research into environmental racism at the University of Washington sheds light on the scope and costs of environmental injustice.

Relaunching 2020 and starting off a new season of podcasting with a recap, reset, and brief review of recent events, podcasted from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.

Caroline Arkesteyn brings us a report on the privatization of public lands, featuring an interview with Land Tawney, CEO of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. Tawney has been leading an innovative and effective movement to stop the transfer of public lands into private hands.

Sophia Lahmers interviews Nancy Cook Lauer, an environmental journalist working in Hawaii who has extensively covered the many threats to island wildlife, from invasive species to over-development. The rapidly accelerating extinction that marks this era as the "Anthropocene" is particularly apparent in the islands, where a number of native species hang at the brink of extinction.

Bruce Stevens interviews veteran environmental attorney, Jim Coda, who discusses the impact of industrialized dairy farming on the Point Reyes National Seashore. Coda explains alternative management policies that would foster greater biodiversity and restore the ecosystem.

Lauren Anderson interviews Clyde Cooper, Council Member of St. James Parish. They discuss the history of the area, a region that is often referred to as "Cancer Alley" thanks to corporate and governmental treatment of the community as an industrial "sacrifice zone." Cooper discusses opposition to permits for new, pollution-producing plants in the Parish.

Cassie Hagen brings us a story about efforts in the Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, VA, to promote equitable and sustainable energy in the region. The community has been combatting plans by Duke and Dominion Energy to build a Compressor Station in Union Hill, part of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Cassie interviews Harrison Wallace, Virginia Director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

Brian Grabowski interviews Janet VanDine of the Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association about the organization's efforts to help steward Seneca Lake and deal with broader environmental threats and policy matters involving the Finger Lakes ecosystem.

Max Chao talks to Lisa Interlandi of the Everglades Law Center and Curtis Morgan of the Miami Herald about current initiatives to protect, preserve, and restore the Florida Everglades.

Andy Bjerk interviews Taylor Hawes, Director of The Nature Conservancy's Colorado River Program. The Colorado River is the life giving central artery for the desert Southwest of the USA and Northwest of Mexico, and it is being impacted by drought, climate change, and pressures of development throughout this special watershed.

Dominic Binggeli interviews Ileene Anderson, Public Lands Deserts Director and Senior Scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity in Los Angeles. Binggeli and Anderson discuss the Trump Administrations’ plans to allow fracking in California despite that State’s opposition to that method for extracting oil and natural gas.